Gases

environment. What are the problems? One huge issue is global warming, which is caused by chemicals building up in our atmosphere that hold heat on earth, rather than going further up into the atmosphere. One huge chemical creating this issue is CO2. These gases are being emitted by humans at an alarming rate.…

When discussing the environment creates a lot of controversy as there are many different opinions on how the environment should be regulated. Proposals on how to regulate and protect the environment have proved to be unsuccessful up to this point as both political parties cannot agree on regulations that suites all parties involved. The United States needs to take responsibility and be the first country to enact a national policy that will significantly reduce emissions because by doing so will…

which produces high amounts of carbon dioxide and toxic gases such as nitrogen oxides. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and nitrogen oxides are gases that can damage people's lungs (How Does Oil). Windmills do not produce harmful substances. When generating electricity, windmills use generators that spin a magnet around wires with the wind to produce electricity. In the process of doing this, no harmful gases are produced. Only electricity is produced and…

Why keep Millstone open? (Business Owner) According to the Hartford Courant (2017), Millstone gives Connecticut the opportunity to reduce high electric rates, meet carbon-reduction goals and ensure jobs for the state. Millstone should be kept open because of its benefits at the state and local level. Millstone produces electricity to power 2 million homes, supports 12,000 jobs in the region, and generates the equivalent of half the electricity used by Connecticut. In a study done by the NEI…

Animal agriculture caused global warming, task 8 Animal’s farming is responsible for 9% of human that causes carbon dioxide globally. The animal farming is also a source of a greenhouse gas. Ruminant animal’s like cattle produces methane which is a greenhouse gas about 20 times more powerful of carbon dioxide. One of the main ways in which livestock sectors contributes to global warming is caused by the expansion of grazing land and farmable of land used to grow crops. The livestock sector is…

How do volcanoes affect the atmosphere and climate? During an eruption there is often a lot of rain, lighting, and thunder. This happens because all the ash particles that are thrown up into the air are good at collecting water droplets. Another problem is that it forms in a fog or volcanic fog. If the volcanic fog only gets into the troposphere it gets washed away with the rain. Most of the particles that come from volcanoes and go to the atmosphere cool the planet by shading incoming solar…

The planet Earth orbits in such a way that it can cause an ice age. In order for this type of ice age to occur there would have to be many different things that must occur all at once. There is nothing the human civilization could possibly do about the orbit either to prevent the ice age. Milutin Milankovitch discovered the three orbital parameters that can cause an ice age if the conditions were all to align. Milankovitch’s three different orbital parameters include Earth’s eccentricity, axial…

these fluctuations into account when they assert that we are currently experiencing unique conditions in Earth's history. Scientists have found only one variable to explain the relatively recent rapidity of global warming: an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activity. By burning fossil fuels, humans have increased carbon dioxide in…

Materials Used to Conduct this Experiment: • 1 piece of paper • 1 pencil • 9 large balloons • 1 black sharpie or marker • 2 glass funnels of varying sizes • 1 cardboard tube • 3 yellow small rubber bands • 3 green small rubber bands • 3 red small rubber bands • 1 CO2 gas sensor that ranges-0 to 10,000 and 0 to 100,000 • 1 roll of measuring tape (cm) • 1 CO2 gas chamber (2000 mL) • 3 different vehicles (#1= Triumph Tiger 800 2013 Motorcycle #2= Buick Terraza Minivan 2006 #3= 1997 Honda CRV) •…

The climate that we know today has very little in common with the climate of a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago. Climate change can easily be defined as the change in climate patterns on a global or regional level. Some definitions put more emphasis on the recent human actions that have given rise to global changes such as weather and temperature, and what we know as global warming. But the earth has been around for quite some time, and has gone…